Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
10th, 11th & 12th April 2026
Lot 46
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer: £320
William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England, 1870-1899. Two page folding hand written letter, on London County Cricket Club letterhead, from Grace to ‘My dear Dick’ (presumably being Richard Moore ‘Dick’ Bell. London County 1902-1904) regarding his non appearance at a golf match possible arrangements for future game, the letter dated March 11th 1906 by Grace. ‘I expected to see you yesterday at Hurlingham. I hope nothing serious prevented you from turning up. We had a great days golf and the match ended in a tie. It is a sporting course and wants a lot of doing. I am afraid I cannot manage to play tomorrow, In have nothing on Tuesday in fact all the week. When are you coming back, you do not say where you are off to. I think I can manage to give you a good game now. With kind regards from my wife I am yours very truly...’. Nicely signed ‘W.G. Grace’. Sold with a colour ‘Tuck’s’ postcard of Grace in cricketing pose ‘Playing Back’. Good condition
Grace and Bell were good friends and played cricket together with London County C.C. and using a quote from a previously sold letter from Bell, Bell remembers meeting ‘the Doctor practically all the year round after he came up to London, cricket in the summer & we used to run with the beagles and play golf together in the winter’.